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How easy is Arabic (MSA) for Maltese speakers?

Going from Maltese to Arabic (MSA) (العربية) has a composite linguistic distance of 39% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

39% distance FSI Cat IV (Hardest) — ~2,200 hours

Lexical similarity

55%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

69%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

43%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Latin → Arabic

Genealogical kinship

100%

Afro-Asiatic ↔ Afro-Asiatic

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Other easy languages for Maltese speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Maltese:

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Italian

51% distance
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Tigrinya

53% distance
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Hebrew

54% distance
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Amharic

56% distance
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Spanish

59% distance

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